Assistant Accountant

Location: Corby
Salary: Up to £45,000
Full-time | Office-based | Free Parking
Hours: 8:30am to 5:00pm, Monday to Friday

The Opportunity

We are recruiting for an ambitious and growing business in Corby that is looking for an Assistant Accountant to join its finance team.

This is a fantastic opportunity for someone looking for a varied accounting position where they can broaden their experience, take ownership of key finance processes and develop alongside a growing company.

You'll have exposure across accounts receivable, accounts payable, credit control, reconciliations and month-end, while supporting the wider Finance and Commercial teams with accurate and up-to-date financial information.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage the credit control function across customer accounts, chasing outstanding balances and resolving queries.
• Process sales information, including customer invoices and credit notes.
• Generate and distribute accurate customer invoicing.
• Complete regular customer account reconciliations, investigating any discrepancies.
• Manage customer and internal finance queries, ensuring issues relating to unpaid invoices are followed through to resolution.
• Support month-end close, including journals, balance sheet reconciliations and ad-hoc analysis.
• Process and maintain accounts receivable activity, including recharge invoices and invoice collection.
• Assist with bank reconciliations, ensuring transactions are accurately recorded.
• Provide support across accounts payable processes when required.
• Maintain accurate financial records and ensure internal controls are followed to a high standard.
• Provide accurate financial information to the Finance and Commercial teams.
• Help identify opportunities to improve finance processes as the business continues to grow.

About You

The successful candidate will ideally:

• Have a couple of years' experience within a finance or accounting environment.
• Be studying towards, or interested in studying towards, an Accounting & Finance qualification such as AAT, ACCA or CIMA.
• Have experience across areas such as AR, AP, credit control and reconciliations.
• Ideally have some exposure to month-end processes, journals and balance sheet reconciliations.
• Have strong attention to detail and be confident working with financial data.
• Be organised, proactive and comfortable managing a varied workload.
• Be confident communicating with customers and internal stakeholders.
• Be keen to develop and take on additional responsibility as the business grows.